I have setup my render to use two farmers for rendering but unfortunately they don't find any textures. shadowmaps are also not found. all files are referenced by $HIP/path.. first I though it would be a linux workstation, windows farmer problem, but then i switched to awindows workstation, where the pathes are identical. but the error is still there. any hints to bring this error down.

do host need unc pathes or doesn't it matter as long as the resolved $HIP path is the same?

martin

Do you have the textures on an shared volume with the same setups on all machines?
You have to create the shadowmaps the same way, a shared volume.

The best test is to run houdini on the renderfarms and see if they find the textures and that they have the right permissions to generate shadowmaps.
We have an NFS volume that everybody mount at the same spot on the localmachine and renderfarms. All setups, textures, otl etc, are on the same place, works brilliant. Linux of course!

Good Luck

ha thanks a lot, we nailed it. we had to assign hserver to a account with equal rights

martin